Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-05

were IN first class condition, intoxicRt-
ingly speaking. Trey raised a rumpns
on upper Third street, the cops nabbed
them and this morning Judge Pratt
smiled on them. One of them paid the
fine aud the other two will eat city
grub" in the cooler for a dozen days.
The Milwaukee, surveyors are this
afternoon running a line due north from
khe Milwaukee depos, some three hum
dsed yards. This takes them upon Com
modore Kpuayz's forty.
The case OF Joseph Blazak and Fred
Muter, who we're arrested q week ago for
ssining in Tie Jim river, is still pending
although it came up for hearing on
Wednesday last. At that time the de-
~fe1denoauis took q change OF venue
from Jadge Pratt's court to Judge Ross
teucher's cour and Judge -Rosssuescher,
alter hearing tie evidence. discharged
the defendants. Thereupon l.. B. French,
district attorney, took q change of venue
back to Pratt's court and the case will
be heard under new warrants on Tues
day next.
The opinion OF Justice Roesteuscher
IN the case of the territory of Dakota VS..
two men caught fishing with a seine in
jim river near Its mouth and by him
discharged ftom custody, will attract
wide spread attention. He held that
during food periods the Missouri river
backs up into Jim river some distance
and that during the prevalence OF such
backing the Jim was not the Jim, but
the Missouri, and the fish therein were
Missouri river fish. The ruling ls based
upon the fact that the law prohibits
fishing With a seine in Jim river, but
does not prohibit it il the Missouri
river.
j. r. Chadwick, of the firm of Chad
wick 6 Tufts, of MarshAlltown, Iowa,
has rented o section of land near Gay
vile, in this county. and he there pur-
poses cutting 5000 tons of hay, which is
to be baled and shipped to eastern
markets. MI. Chadwick will make
Ysnkton his headquarters, and he
has been in the city for the
last two days employing men to do the
work, The cutting and baling will oc.
cupy in all about five months, and TWEEN
ty-fve men will be required all that
time to do the work. The horses and
machinery reached Yankton from the
east at noon to-day, and will be sent at
once to Gayville.
Rather an unusual transaction in
commercial circles occurred last evening
M. d.. Lingo parted with o mare to Fred
hincel for an old jack screw used in
hosting carriage wheels for the purpose
of applying grease to the axles. During
the day the two had struck up a bargain
by which Kincel agreed to trade his jach
(he owns n of the long cared kind) for
a mare owned by Lingo. The trade was
made the way boys sometimes SWAP
kpives-"unsIght and unseen" In &c.
%cordanoe with this arrangement Lingo
sent to Kinoel's stable last
night bundle Of bonel
held together by n hide and the
moment Kincel saw the apparition be
sat down to think. In this mood his
eyes rested upon the carriage jack and
he Immediately began to feel better.
He gathered up the implement and sent
it over to Mi. Lingo, keeping the atten-
uated mare. The honor which exists
between horae traders prevents Mr..
Lingo from kicking, though he has
registered a quiet vow to get even with
Kinoel if the earth holds together long
enough.